Maintenance Helper

Job duties

Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.

Maintenance Helpers – Seventeen (17) temporary, full-time positions from October 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027 with Raceland Raw Sugar, LLC in Raceland, Louisiana. Help installation, maintenance, and repair workers in the maintenance, the parts replacement and the repair of industrial equipment used in the processing of raw sugar. Perform duties such as furnishing tools, materials, and supplies to other, more experienced workers. Cleaning work area, machines, and tools, and holding materials or tools for other more experienced workers during the harvesting season and after in preparation for the upcoming harvesting season. Higher pay may be available to workers with extensive experience. A minimum of 3 months experience is required in the job offered on sugar mill equipment. No minimum education is required. No on-the-job training is provided. Optional on-site lodging offered at no charge to workers hired in this temporary position. As applicable, daily transportation to and from worksite will be provided by employer. The employer will provide workers at no charge (or deposit charge) all tools, supplies, and equipment required to perform the job. Willing to work 7 days a week, varying 8 hour shifts (7am-3pm; 3pm-11pm; 11pm -7am); 56 hrs a week during harvest season, 40 hrs a week after harvest season until the end of the contract, overtime paid after 48 hours during harvesting and after 40 hours after harvesting. Overtime hours will vary and are not guaranteed. Workers will be paid no less than $18.37/Hour; $27.56/Hour overtime based on a single workweek. A single workweek will be used in computing wages due. Wages are paid bi-weekly. The employer will make all deductions from the worker's paycheck as required by law. Employer guarantees to offer employment equal to at least three-fourths (3/4's) of the workdays of each 12-week period of the total employment period; and, if the guarantee is not met, the employer will pay the worker what the worker would have earned if the employer had offered the guaranteed number of days. The 12-week period will begin the first workday after the worker's arrival or the advertised contractual first date of need, whichever is later. The employer will reimburse the H-2B worker (by check) in the first workweek the full cost for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government (except passport fees). Raceland will provide or reimburse inbound and outbound transportation and daily subsistence costs for corresponding U.S. workers who are not reasonably able to return to their residence within the same workday. The worker will be reimbursed for transportation and subsistence expenses from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad, to the place of employment by check by the employer upon completion of 50% of the period of employment covered by the job order or earlier, if appropriate. The employer will provide or pay for the worker's cost of return transportation and daily subsistence from the place of employment to the place from which the worker, disregarding intervening employment, departed to work for the employer, if the worker completes the certified period of employment or is dismissed from employment for any reason by the employer before the end of the period. The amount of transportation payment or reimbursement will be equal to the most economical and reasonable common carrier for the distances involved. This includes at least $16.78 per day during travel to a maximum of $68.00 per day with documentation of actual expenses. Raceland Raw Sugar, LLC is the same entity as Raceland Raw Sugar Corporation as listed in the State Workforce Agency job order.

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